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University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 20, 1991
EXCURSIONS
Rocker sneaks peak at record sales
Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash sneaked into the back of a record store on Sunset Boulevard to watch fans buying the heavy metal group's new twin albums, his record company said.
Bryn Bridenhal, representative for Geffen Records, said fans did not know Slash was there in the early morning hours Tuesday.
ing hours Tuesday.
Geffen Records had shipped 2 million copies of Use Your Illusion I and 2 million of Use Your Illusion II to record stores.
About 10,000 albums were sold at seven Camelot Music outlets in the Midwest. Stores nationwide stayed open after the discs were released at midnight Monday, said Lew Garrett, vice president of purchasing.
"Ims is like the second coming of the Beatles," said Dinky Rice, assistant manager of Strawberries Records in Boston, one of about 1,000 stores around the country that stayed open.
Guns N' Roses sold 14 million copies of its 1987 debut album, "Appetite for Destruction."
Goldberg is electrifying in new role
Actress Whooni Goldberg, who won an Oscar as a psy
Actress Whoopi Goldberg, who chic in the movie "Ghost" will be joining Ms. Megawatt in an upcoming children's science fiction thriller.
chic in the movie 'Ghost,' will be the voice of lightning bolt-hurling Ms. Megawatt in an upcoming children's science fiction thriller.
"Defenders of Dynatron City",
an animated half-hour show,
to be broadcast on the Fox Net-
workearly next year.
Whoopi Goldberg
The movie, about a gifted 7-year-old who has trouble fitting in with other kids, is featured at the Boston Film Festival.
Ms. Megawatt wears a head-to- toe sheath of static electricity and can discharge lightning bolts from her fingers while moving atonic speeds.
Jodie Foster receives directing award
Jodie Foster has received an award for "Little Man Tate," her directing debut.
Organizers on Monday gave Foster the first Piper Heidisse Award for outstanding achievement.
Herschel Kawai is best known for the 28-year-old actress, who won an Oscar for "The Accused," also plays the boy's working-class mother in "Little Man Tate."
'Roots' author discusses Malcolm X
Foster said she persuaded Orion Pictures to let her direct after she was offered an acting role in the film. She also starred in the year in "The Silence of the Llambs."
Alex Haley, who co-wrote Malcolm X's autobiography in the early 1960s, reminisced recently about the slain civil rights leader for acoming segment of the CBS television news show "60 Minutes."
television new show of "Roots," said he did not know when the "60 Minutes" segment about the African-American militant leader would be broadcast
Ray Charles performance called off
A Ray Charles concert in Stockholm was called off when the promoters discovered the soul singer was on a U.N. blacklist for performing in South Africa in 1981, a
newspaper reported.
Charles was to have performed Oct. 20 in a concert promoted by record producer EMA Tealstar, paper expenser Saplan said Tuesday.
Take a hike!
Ray Charles
Thomas Johansson, head of Ema-Telstar, said the company learned that according to the Congress, Charles is blacklisted.
A U.N. committee has a blacklist of artists and athletics
have performed in South Africa since the 1970s. The ANC has belied enforce it.
From The Associated Press
Club offers hiking enthusiasts a chance to enjoy nature
By Stephanie Patrick Kansan staff writer
Once a month, several Lawrence residents drag themselves out of bed early Saturday morning to take a bike.
They are not being asked to go away. They are experiencing nature.
ing nature. Hike a Month Club offers hikes to Lawrence residents who want to learn more about nature. Chris Cook, co-leader of the hikes, said they are free and open to the public.
- it's a good way for people to get acquainted with the area, "she said."
Cook and her friend, Penny Holt, began the hikes last year because of their love for the environment. The hikes are sponsored by the Sierra Club, Wakarusa Group, a group dedicated to the environment.
dedicated to the trains around each
Each month the group takes a different trail around the
Lawrence area. Previous hikes have been taken at the trails
around Clinton and Perry lakes.
the hikers meet at 9 a.m. the third Saturday of each month at the Alvin's IGA parking lot, Ninth and Iowa streets. They arrange carpools to the hikers.
"Unless it is pouring rain, we go," Cook said.
ness. She said the groups usually had from five to 12 hikers raiding are from 17 to 70.
All hikers are scouted beforehand, Cook said.
"We assume leadership for the hike," she said. "If they go without, we want people to go on the hike we designate."
last in line, everyone saw.
Beginner are welcome. Cook said many KU students
The hikes are usually between six and eight miles long and last the entire day, Cook said.
ha!
"In the fall, we get more students, then it taps off," she said.
"I mosee the students get busy with classes."
said. "I guess the students get busy with classes," Rolande Lodem, Potsdam, Germany, graduate student;
said the hikers were a reminder of hoite:
"I'm from Germany and we take lots of hikes there," she
said. "I'll see."
rooet said she had gone on seven hikes. Her favorite was at Perry Lake. She said she liked that hike because it offered good views of the lake and the animals in the area.
The group sometimes hikes trails more than once, Cook said, but the trails look different depending on the season.
Tomorrow's hike will be at Pomona's 110-mile park trail, also known as the Black Hawk Trail.
aibsRk86h5 chosen because of its diverse plant life and wooded
areas and meadows, she said.
an animal." We were signs of wild animals," said Cook. "We saw raccoon tracks. That was interesting."
raccoon tracks. That was interesting."
"Cook said all hikers should dress in comfortable clothes."
and wear sun of suns.
Hikers also should pack a lunch, water, field glasses and
drink would be helpful.
In addition, she said it was important to pack a bag for trash.
"We want to carry out everything we carry in," Cook said. After a year of hikes, she said there was one question she frequently heard.
"Couldn't we have a longer hike?" has been the question heard most often, "Cook said.
Novel's portrayal of South is not realistic
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Remember the sentimental epigram that scrolls on the screen after the opening credits of "Gone With the Wind?"
Thelines, overlaid on views of a Technicolor Tara, go like this:
this:
"There was a land of Cavaliers and cotton fields called the Old South ... Here in this patrician world the Age of Chivalry took its last bow ... Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave."
"Gone With the Wind" man looper larger than any other creative work influencing how average people perceive the South. And the view they derive from it — especially from the moving realization of plantation society — short-tailored.
Among the planter-squires of the film, where are the more typical Southern farmers—the yeoman farmers, the poor whites? In the novel, where are the whips and welts of slavery?
"People appropriate myths when they can't deal with reality," said Maceo Williams, a history professor at Atlanta's Spelman College, who said he could imagine someday assigning "Gone With the Wind" as a text.
"In part because I'd like my students to understand the need for individuals to hold such erroneous views about themselves," he said. "What does that show about society?"
"Gone With the Wind" is "probably the most powerful single source of our image of the Old South. That and 'Roots,' said University of Virginia history professor Edward Ayers, referring to Alex Haley's retracing of a Black family
"That gives you some sense of how confused our image of the South has been, how schizophrenic," he said.
in 1989, 50 years after the film epic came out, it won the People's Choice Award, based on a Gallup poll, as the favorite movie of Americans. Three years earlier, amid the hoopla of the semi-centennial of publication, the book startlingly resurfaced on The New York Times best seller list. It still sells 250,000 paper copies a year.
bst. It still sizes 20,000 paper with the Wind" do so because
if those wanna "Gone With the Wind" do so because
they share the emotional tension between unforgettable characters struggling to survive war and love and change, at the same time they can't help absorbing the saga's evocation of the Southern past.
cation of the book's own creation.
One of the movie's most blatant idealizations, the curtain-raising eulogy to the "Knights and their Ladies Fair" was not even written by Margaret Mitchell, but by playwright Ben Hecht, one of 17 screenwriters who worked on David Selznick's creation.
David Seimch serials.
Mitchell's biographer said, "She felt she was creating a noble character in Mammy. At the same time, she does not deal with slavery in any significant way in the novel."
In the end, Mitchell's racial characterizations reflect the time and place in which she lived.
"I don't know whether "Gone With the Wind" is a true picture of the South in those days," wrote an early Southern reviewer, Mildred Seydell of the Atlanta Georgian.
"But I do know it is a true picture of the picture of those days that I got as a child from listening to aging, graying relations and friends of their youth," she said.
Early images of America on display at art museum
By Mauricio Rios Kansan staff writer
KU students who want a glimpse at 18th and 19th century American paintings may want to stop by the Spencer Museum of Art.
Andrea Norris, director of the museum, said the paintings were part of a private collection owned by Frederick and Joan Baeckeland of New York.
It took about three years to organize the exhibit, "Images of America: The Painter's Eye," but it takes less than one hour to see it.
"I think it is a fascinating exhibition because it shows wonderful paintings done by artists who made wonderful works of art," she said.
Norris the collection focused on four main types of painting: landscape, marine, geare and still life.
Norris said the collection reflected the owners's tastes.
Genre painting depicts scenes of everyday life, she said.
"People liked the show a lot," Norris said.
About 200 people showed up Sept. 12 when Frederick Baekeland spoke at the Spencer Museum.
Among the best-known painters are artists such as Albert Bierstadt, John La Farge and Jasper Cropsey, she said.
Norris said the exhibit had been
organized by the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama.
KU is the first place, however, where "images of America" is being shown. It was necessary to change the schedule so that KU could show the collection, she said.
McCormick, who graduated from KU in 1971 with a degree in drawing and painting, said the still life paintings were more approachable and more inviting than the landscapes.
Tom McCormick, an art dealer from Kansas City, Mo., said he enjoyed the still life part of the exhibit.
"In this collection, still life seems to be spectacular," he said.
"The rabbit over there is really something," he said, pointing to one of the paintings.
The exhibit will be in Lawrence through October 13. It then will make three more stops: the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Art Gallery at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md., and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
"The landscapes seem to exclude you rather than to include you," he said. "But it's a gorgeous collection."
next spring the collection will be returned to the Baekelands.
Wendil Groves/KANSAN
Jean Wright, Lawrence resident and security guard at the Spencer Museum of Art, keeps watch over the new exhibit.
Night Life in Lawrence
- Baghdad Jones will perform tonight and tomorrow at the Jazzhaus, 926 1/2 Massachusetts St. The cover charge is $3.
Cocktails will open for the Sin City Disciples tonight at the Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St. The cover charge is $4. Sinister Dane will open for Id Explosion tomorrow. The cover charge is $4.
Room Full of Walters will perform tonight at Benchwarmers, 1601 W. 23rd St. The Hallowen will play tomorrow night. The cover charge is $1.
The Nace Brothers will play tonight and tomorrow night at Just a Playhouse, 806 W.24th St.
Liberty Hall, 942 Massachusetts St., will show "Paris is Burning" at 5:30 9:45 tonight and "Ju Dou" at 7:30 tonight. "Festival of Animation" will be shown at 4:15, 7:15, 9:30 p.m., and midnight tonight and 2:30, 4:45, 7:15 p.m. and midnight tomorrow.
Student Union Activities will show "Sleeping with the Enemy" at 7 and 9:30 tonight and tomorrow. Tickets are $2.50.